Denise Clarke is an Associate Artist with One Yellow Rabbit and is the Director of the OYR Summer Lab Intensive. She has toured extensively in shows she has created or co-created for OYR including Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp, Mata Hari: Tigress at the City Gates, Doing Leonard Cohen, Thunderstruck, Sign Language, and Dream Machine. Denise has been recognized by the University of Calgary with an Honourary Doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and in December 2013, she was appointed as a Member to the Order of Canada.

John Murrell, OC, AOE (born October 15, 1945 - November 11, 2019) was an American-born Canadian playwright. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrell moved to Alberta after graduating from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas with a BFA in 1968. He moved to Canada to avoid the draft, studying at the University of Calgary. In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence. In 2008, he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.[1] for which he was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada animated short by Cam Christiansen entitled The Real Place.